Today is the 60th anniversary of The 228 Incident in which protests by native Taiwanese on this date in 1947 led to the wholesale execution of Taiwanese leaders by Chiang Kai-shek’s forces who occupied Taiwan after Japan’s defeat in World War II. According to TaiwanDC.Org, in addition to those outright killed, Thousands of others were…
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Bill Clinton and other American politicians look rather tame compared to an ongoing sex scandal in Taiwan. Leave it to an Asian country to distribute videotapes of politicians having sex on video CDs inserted in magazines. Lets hope that is one journalistic practice that does not become popular in the United States.
When George W. Bush recently said that the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan if the island nation were invaded by the People’s Republic of China, the ensuing firestorm in the media centered around whether or not such a guarantee was wise from a foreign policy standpoint. Myles Kantor is the only…
In a recent column (The solution to Africa’s problems is not socialism but freedom) on Africa’s perennial economic problems, Walter Williams made an argument that rears its ugly head all to off ten in free market conservative thought — namely the claim that democracy isn’t necessarily a good thing. If Williams were advocating on behalf…
For the past several months, U.S. steel companies and their political allies have been complaining that Japan, Russia and other countries have been unfairly “dumping” steel in U.S. markets. The United States threatened to increase tariffs against such nations unless the “dumping” stopped, and recently U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky bragged that through her tireless…
For the past several months U.S. steel companies, their unions and Democrats on Capitol Hill have been whining that steel manufacturers from Brazil, Japan, Russia and other countries are “dumping” steel in the United States. These critics charge that companies from these nations are unfairly selling steel at a price that is simply too low…